Carnegie sought to give back riches

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Nov. 24, 2013

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In 1889, Andrew Carnegie wrote, "The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship."

Carnegie, who had become one of the richest men in the world through his steel company and many related investments, was determined to revolutionize how the vast fortunes amassed during the Gilded Age would be used.

Carnegie, who was born on Nov. 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland, began working as a bobbin boy in an Alleghany, Pa., cotton mill when his family arrived in America in 1848. Two years ...